Why PMs are Leveling up into AI Product Engineers | Sarah Jacob Singh, CPTO (Medbridge)

December 2nd, 2025  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 21 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined by Sarah Jacob Singh, CPTO at Medbridge, a digital healthcare platform.

In this episode, Sarah shares:

• Why AI means all companies have to act like startups again, with product more tightly integrated from engineering all the way to go-to-market
• How many Product Managers are evolving into Product Engineers - building prototypes, shipping code, and helping developer teams innovate faster
• The ways Medbridge is leveraging AI-enabled Product Engineers to ship big bets weekly instead of quarterly

A Serial Founder’s Guide to Pivots, Exits, and AI | Raj Singh, VP of Product (Mozilla)

November 25th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 37 secs

business, digital experience, mozilla, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined by serial entrepreneur Raj Singh. His multiple exits have landed him in product leadership roles at companies like Salesforce.com, and, most currently, as a VP of Product at Mozilla, where he’s leading the team creating new AI products for SMBs.

In this episode, Raj shares:

• How his companies navigated multiple pivots, with innovations from ChatGPT and Zoom leading most recently to an acquisition by Mozilla
• What makes “agentic browsers” the next major interface for the web, and how they could change everything from ad models to API access
• And why Mozilla’s stewardship of Gecko, one of only three major browser engines, is essential to keeping the internet open in the age of AI

When CPO Becomes CMO: The Expanding Role of Product Leaders | Karen Chao (Flowspace)

November 18th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 12 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined by Karen Chao, Chief Product Officer at Flowspace, an ecommerce logistics platform, where she’s also taken on a role as head of marketing. Previously, Karen held product leadership roles at Apple, Replicon, Innit, and more.

In this episode, Karen shares:

• How she ended up running Marketing on top of Product, and how bringing these two functions under one leader has improved go-to-market for Flowspace
  
• The biggest surprises she’s uncovered running marketing as a product leader, from chaotic tool stacks to the next wave of AI-powered go-to-market automation
• And how Flowspace’s product team uses AI tools like Cursor and Claude to accelerate discovery and prototyping, and even ship small bug fixes straight to production without Engineers involved

When AI Makes Engineering Too Fast for Product Teams | Oji Udezue (ex-Typeform & Calendly)

November 13th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  24 mins 8 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

On today’s episode of LaunchPod, we’ve got something special for you. Normally, you’d have to join us in person at one of the dinners we host for product leaders to hear this talk from Oji Udezue. But the response has been so great, we had to bring him onto the show again.

Oji has previously held product leadership roles at Typeform, Twitter, Calendly, and Atlassian. Today, he’s joining us to share a major problem in product delivery that he’s seeing as AI adoption increases across teams.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The “three-speed problem,” as Oji calls it – how AI will bring about a 10x increase in engineering velocity. But where does that leave product management and go-to-market teams if they can’t keep up?
• Why AI is a BS term, as it’s really five new AND distinct capabilities – and how to use those as a framework for smarter product strategy
• And how his “shipyard model” for product teams will ensure you keep up and thrive, even as AI reshapes how we build software

Product Lessons from a $3B Bootstrapped eCom Platform | Trevin Chow, CPO (Big Cartel)

November 4th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 46 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined by Trevin Chow, Chief Product Officer at Big Cartel, an ecommerce platform for independent creators to turn their art into income. Previously, Trevin held product leadership roles at Nike, Microsoft, Axon, and more.

In this episode, Trevin shares:

• How they thread the needle between brand history and innovation — respecting a 20+ year legacy while still driving towards the future
• His process for creating “simple magic” by making features so simple, they delight users — even if that trades less customization for better ease of use
• How AI is transforming product and design workflows by drastically cutting down the time between idea and innovation
• And what product leaders can learn from rethinking simple as a benefit rather than a constraint

How Tinder Swiped Right on Customer Experience | Curtis Stevens (ex-Tinder)

October 28th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 46 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re talking with Curtis Stevens, who, until recently, was Tinder’s Director of Product Consumer Insights, and prior to that held product leadership roles at Qualtrics, Amazon, and more.

In this episode, Curtis shares:

• How AI can actually be a tool for human connection
• His process behind Tinder’s transformation into customer-centricity, with real, measurable results
• How to balance short-term user joy with long-term product innovation and future features
• And how AI is driving customer experience changes faster than research can follow, and what you can do to keep up

The Hidden AI Revolution in Construction | Rajitha Chaparala (Procore)

October 23rd, 2025  |  Season 1  |  8 mins 30 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

On today’s episode, we’re talking with Rajitha Chaparala, VP of Product at Procore, a construction management solution and one of the most successful examples of vertical SaaS out there today.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Rajitha and her team are using LLMs to streamline complex processes like requests for information (RFIs), project revisions, and construction site walkthroughs
• Why building trust and showing real, immediate value were key to getting AI buy-in from construction professionals, historically hesitant to adopt new tech
• Why Rajitha believes this is construction’s moment for AI, and how the shift from skepticism to curiosity happened almost overnight

Linear’s Secret to Building Powerful AI Products | Nan Yu, VP of Product (Linear)

October 16th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  29 mins 32 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined again by Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear.

In this episode, Nan shares:

• Why you’re wrong to think of AI as a way to reduce costs -- and why the real value is in enabling new work that was previously impossible
• The 3 must-haves he’s deduced from across the most successful AI products to produce consistently great outcomes for users
• The behind-the-scenes details of Linear’s new Agent Interaction Guidelines

Reinventing SaaS: Zuora's AI Transformation | Karthik Chakkarapani and Shakir Karim (Zuora)

October 9th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 30 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined by Shakir Karim (Senior VP of Product) and Karthik Chakkarapani (CIO & Senior VP of Corporate Operations) from Zuora.

In this episode, Shakir and Karthik discuss:

• Why they believe AI is a bigger inflection point than web, mobile, or cloud
• Their internal AI agent workflow that automatically resolves thousands of service requests instantly, freeing teams to focus on strategy
• How they cut a major feature deployment step from 14 days to 10 minutes using Claude Code
• Why prompt-a-thons and hackathons have been vital for driving not just AI adoption but AI literacy

The Secrets Behind a 30x AI Product Team | Zac Hays, CPO (Luxury Presence)

October 7th, 2025  |  Season 1  |  23 mins 31 secs

business, digital experience, product management, technology

Today, we’re joined by Zac Hays, CPO at Luxury Presence, a fast-growing real estate tech platform that made a huge bet on AI adoption across the company..

In this episode, we discuss:

• Luxury Presence's 30x Value Principle and how they rethought goals and projects to have exponential-level impact
• The AI design sprint process that allowed the company to 20x product velocity
• How their mandatory AI bug triage policy has cut resolution time by 80%